Since the 1950s, the leather-clad motorcyclist’s been the most potent image of the archetypal bad boy, popularised by Hollywood stars such as Marlon Brando and James Dean. Now this painstakingly detailed chronicle of biker culture delves into the early town sieges of America’s mid-West in the 1940s, through to the
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Oil in the Blood is an excellent documentary film about the contemporary custom motorcycle culture, directed by lifelong biker Gareth Maxwell Roberts, and produced by Lucy Selwood. Over the last three years, they’ve interviewed nearly 300 bike builders, riders, journalists, artists and racers, and filmed at just about every big
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Beeline Moto is a revolutionary new motorcycle sat nav that makes navigation on a bike easy and safe, writes BSH editor Nik Samson. It’s a neat little round unit that attaches to the front of your bike (on the dash or the ’bars or a mirror stalk, wherever you can
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Her work’s graced the pages of BSH for more than 35 years, and our own Louise Limb’s been once again collecting some of her favourite works to put in her very popular calendar for 2020. Her new offering features a selection of classic images from her archive, and maybe even
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Triumph have announced the prices for their new Rocket 3R, and Rocket 3GT, as being £19,500 and £20,200 respectively, and that both models’ll be available in dealers from early 2020. They both feature the biggest production motorcycle engine in the world; a 2,500cc triple that delivers incredible acceleration and performance,
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Grab the 2020 custom bike calendar for FREE in the brand new issue of Back Street Heroes!
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Gogairy do hand-painted leather (or vegan-friendly faux leather) jackets, or denim or camouflage-print jackets, and have a catalogue of ready-to-wear jackets in a variety of colours with themes including superheroes, comic books, floral, metallica and cartoon, or if you have a particular design in mind you can have it bespoke
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As I’m sure you know, biking as a culture is getting older; as reported last month, the average age of a BSH reader is now 57, and everywhere you go where there are bikers it’s plain that we, as a sub-culture, are predominantly wrinklies. Not all of us though, I’m
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Triumph Motorcycles has launched a new Central London dealership, heralding the return of the iconic brand’s presence in the Capital. Based in Vauxhall’s instantly recognisable railway arches, Triumph London officially opened its doors with a VIP party for customers, celebrities and ambassadors and starring two new 2020 models – the
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It’s been a very long time since I’ve ridden a cruiser, a Japanese cruiser – years in fact. I think the last one was a Yamaha V-Star XVS1300A. Words: Nik Pics: Nik and Dave Manning Since then, despite the popularity of custom-styled factory bikes from the likes of Harley-Davidson, Indian,
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